Showing posts with label fruits. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fruits. Show all posts

Friday, March 4, 2011

Fruits as Cures or Remedies to Different Diseases

Use of fruits as medicine in different diseases. Try these tips before taking medicine (drugs).

Acidity 
The easiest, tried and tested remedy to cure acidity is to have as much cucumbers as one can without sprinkling salt over it. If you sprinkle salt over them, you again use something which adds to acidity. After you have eaten your meal, don’t drink water instead have cucumbers. You can also have them with your food.

Anemia 
There are many fruits and flowers that offer permanent cure for the patients. Here are some:
Give the patient half kg of sweet grapes’ juice for 10 days. He shall have enough blood in the body with rich hemoglobin in it.
Have peaches at least 5 at a time for about 10 days. Peaches are rich in iron and they would cure this trouble.
Have the combination of mango juice and milk for about a week.

Baldness
Take the oil of the mango pickle and massage your head for about half an hour with it. If you are bald not because of the hereditary effect, you would definitely get back your hair. During the season of cucumbers crush them and extract their juice and apply it on your hair for a fortnight. You can also apply their pulp on your head for quick hair growth.

Bronchitis
Take about 10 almonds and 10 dried raisins and soak them in water overnight. Early in the morning, remove the rinds from almonds and remove the seeds from the raisins. Now take a small, cleaned piece of ginger and grind the three ingredients to get a paste. Now add two spoons of honey and lick it. Do it every morning and evening for two days. This treatment will not only cure the trouble but would also strengthen the lungs.

Ear-Boil
Collect a little bit of green blossom of mango, normally lying beneath the mango tree. Extract the juice of this green blossom, add in even amount of mustard oil and put a few drops of it in the afflicted ear. This treatment will make the boil burst and clear out all the pus, etc.

Early Aging
Take about 10 almonds, soak them in water, remover their rinds and grind them to paste by mixing a little bit of milk. Now boil the combination in milk and when it cools, add about two spoonfuls of honey. Drink this potion. Continue the treatment for about a year. Have lots of apples, grapes and oranges daily.

Extreme Thirst
Normally, the thirst is easily quenched by drinking orange juices or having pineapple. Still, if you fail to quench the thirst, try the following remedies:
Take out the kernel from a mango, crust it and boil it in water like you boil tea. Now add a little bit of sugar candy and drink.
For those who frequently feel thirsty, pomegranate juice mixed with sugar candy is the ideal combination. Drink it twice or thrice to overcome this feeling.

Different

Fire Burns
If the fire burns are not very deep, extract the kernel from the mango, rub it against water, wet the surface and apply the paste on the burns. Soon you will have relief. If it be a form of wound, burn the dry leaves of mango, strain the ash and sprinkle over the wound. This ash is an effective antiseptic and heals the fire burns.

Fatigue
Coconut water immediately removes fatigue and brings energy back to the body. Having orange juice with a little bit of pineapple juice mixed in it shall also remove the fatigue. While drinking this, rinse them in your mouth and keep your tongue standing clean of the teeth for quick rejuvenation.

Foul Breath
Normally, foul breath is caused by not any infection in the mouth but due to digestive disorders. Have five grains of raisins and five pieces of small cardamom. Remove the seeds of raisins and replace them by the grains of small cardamom. Lick their juice without chewing them. Soon your breath would be fresh.

Indigestion
Cut a fresh papaya, sprinkle rock salt and black pepper over its pieces and pour a few drops of lemon and eat them gradually. Papaya has a very useful element named “pepsin,” which is very effective in clearing all sorts of indigestions. Besides clearing indigestion, it also cures the germs inside the body. It is an ideal fruit for activating the sluggish liver. It also provides energy to the body.

Kidney Pain
Having the decoction of the leaves of grapes quickly cures of pain in kidney. Boil about 30 to 40 leaves of grapes in water, then add a little rock salt and strain it through a coarse cloth. Now allow the patient to drink it. While preparing, take care that you use only soft leaves and boil them after thoroughly cleaning them. This is very effective and will cure all sorts of kidney troubles.

Liver Trouble
Tomato juice and soup of tomato is very effective to activate a sluggish liver. Make the patient drink the juice early in the morning and soup in lunch or dinner. For elderly persons, juice of two tomatoes and for younger patients, of one tomato would be adequate. Add a little ginger juice with tomato juice to increase the bowels.

Read More: http://healthmad.com/alternative/fruits-as-medicine/2/

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Nutrients in Different Fruits (Apple, Avocado, Banana, Coconut, Grapes and Papaya)

We need different kinds of fruits and veggies so that we can get all necessary vitamins and minerals needed in our bodies to live sane lives.

Apple
Apple is a highly nutritive food. It contains minerals and vitamins in a good quantity. On an average, 100 grams of apple contains: 84.6% moisture, 0.2% protein, 0.5% fat, 0.3% minerals, 1.0% fiber, 13.4% carbohydrates.

It provides 10 mg. calcium, 14 mg. phosphorus, 1 mg. iron, 40 IU of vitamin A and around 59 calories. There are small amounts of vitamin E, H and B-Complex too.

The skin of the apple and flesh contain more vitamin C and A than the inner flesh. The apple has malic acid, which is completely utilized by the body. This malic acid is beneficial to the bowels, liver and brain.
Apple Nutrition Facts

The active medicinal ingredient of apple is pectin, found in the inner portion of the rind and pulp that aids in detoxification by supplying of glacturonic acid, necessary for the elimination of certain harmful substances.

Mango Nutrition Facts
Mango
Raw mango is rich source of pectin, oxalic, citric, malic, and succinic acids. It is a good source of vitamin C, B1, and B2 too.The ripe fruit is very wholesome and nourishing. The principal ingredient of mango is sugar. There are citric, malic and tartaric acids in a ripe mango that are beneficial to the body and help maintain the alkali reserved of the body. On an average, 100 grams of mango contains 81.0% moisture, 0.6% protein, 0.4% fat, 0.4% minerals, 0.7% fiber and 16.9% carbohydrates.

It provides 14 mg. calcium, 16 mg. phosphorus, 1.3 mg. iron, 16.0 mg. vitamin C and a small amount of vitamin B complex.

Its calorie value is 74.

The ripe mango nourishes the body by increasing gastric juice, blood, flesh, fat, bone marrow and semen. This fruit is also beneficial in liver disorders, loss of weight and other physical disturbances.

Avocado Nutrition Facts
Avocado
Avocado contains fat, which is wholly free from the unpleasant butyric acid. It is a rich source of vitamin A and maintains high resistance against bacterial infection. The protein of avocado is of finest quality. The pulp of the fruit is so free from fiber that it forms with water a fine emulsion, which closely resembles milk in consistency and appearance.

Per 100 grams of edible portion, it contains 73.6% moisture, 1.7% protein, 22.8% fat, 1.1% minerals and 0.8% carbohydrates.

It provides 10 mg. calcium, 80 mg. phosphorus, 0.7 mg. iron and 290 international units of vitamin A. There is sufficient of vitamin E and a small amount of vitamin C and B-Complex. Its calorie value is 215.

Banana Nutrition Facts
Banana
This fruit is a constitution of tissue building elements, protein, vitamins, minerals, and calories, along with sugar and high grade protein, which include three essential amino acids.

Per 100 grams, it contains 70.1% moisture, 1.2% protein, 0.3% fat, 0.8% minerals, 0.4% fiber and 27.2% carbohydrates. It provides 17 mg. calcium, 36 mg. phosphorus, 0.9 mg. iron, 7 mg. vitamin C and small amount of vitamin B Complex.

Its calorie value is 116.

This is supposed to be a complete balanced diet if combined with milk.

Grapes Nutrition Facts
Grapes
Grape is a highly valued food due to its rich content of sugar, which is formed almost entirely by glucose. Grapes glucose is easily assimilated and helps in the metabolism of glucose which is helpful for proper functioning of heart and other physiologically important organs.

Per 100 grams, grapes contain 92.0% moisture, 0.7% protein, 0.1% fat, 0.2% minerals and 7.0% carbohydrates.

It has 20 mg. calcium, 20 mg. phosphorus, 0.2 mg. iron, 31 mg. vitamin C and small amount of vitamin B Complex, vitamin A and P.

Its calorie value is 32.

Papaya Nutrition Facts
Papaya
Ripe papaya is an excellent tonic for growing children, for pregnant women and nourishing mothers. It is a boon for the stomach.

Per 100 grams of edible portion, it contains 90.8% moisture, 0.6% protein, 0.1% fat, 0.5% minerals, 0.8% fiber and 7.2% carbohydrates.

This provides 17 mg. calcium, 13 mg. phosphorus, 0.5 mg. iron, 57 mg. vitamin C and a small amount of vitamin B Complex.

Its calorie value is 32.

The most important content of papaya is the protein digesting enzyme in the milky juice or lather which is carried in a network of vessels. This enzyme is similar to pepsin in its digestive action. This enzyme can digest protein – 20 times than its own weight.

Coconut Nutrition Facts
Coconut
Coconut is highly nourishing food. It has a high oil content that is easily digestible. Its oil resembles butter in physical and chemical properties. The protein content of coconut is of high quality, containing all the amino acids.

Per 100 grams of edible portion, it contains 36.3% moisture, 4.5% protein, 41.6% fat, 1.0% minerals, 3.6% fiber, and 13.0% carbohydrates.

It provides 10 mg. calcium, 240 mg. phosphorus, 1.7 mg. iron, 1 mg. vitamin C and a small amount of vitamin B Complex. Fresh coconut’s calorie value is 444 and dried coconut’s calorie value is 662 (per 100 gm.).

Its tender kernel contains various enzymes and is easily digestible. The water of a single coconut contains sufficient vitamin C to meet the daily requirements of the body. It also contains several vitamins of B-Complex group. Its water is a good source of several minerals too.




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